Caius Sharpe

BArch

My final year at Loughborough has been concerned with Laboratory Conferta's agenda: Food, Diversity and the City.
Critical design thinking is my keen passion, grounded in the architect-maker.

Final Project

The Fantastical Foodscape

The Fantastical Foodscape is a project derived to design-in the architecture of a landscape; giving agency to the food we grow, eat and waste in the lower lea valley landscape.

The Lea Valley

Contextually, the site is Phoenix Wharf located on the west side of Banbury reservoir in a ‘tenacious toe-hold’ of light mixed industry and ‘bastard countryside’ (William Mann, 2009).

A Critique of Our Relationship to Food

The main point of departure of the project is centred around the construct of a ‘foodscape’ defined as – food in our landscape, addressing the most recent ‘UK salad crisis’.

Diagrammatic render of our current relationship to food, a supermarket

Previous Completed Works

Mount Markfield, above, is a socially-driven indoor community food market and production space on Markfield Road.

This working model illustrates the relationship between the subterranean ‘bummock and hummock’ levels.

In a critical review of the project, the proposal’s re-interrogation led to a technical section’s re-development.

This video is an earlier (2 Week) completed work in 2020, amongst the covid-19 pandemic lockdowns.

Awards

‘Best Home Project’ Sponsored by LRSA
Best Achieving Student in Architecture Award 2021-2022

Work Experience

9 Month RIBA Part 1 Placement at Staniforth Architects, Leicester

Visionary Thinkers

Visionary Creators

Visionary Makers